David Wishart

Professor, Departments of Biological Sciences and Computing Sciences
University of Alberta
2-21 Athabasca Hall
Edmonton AB, Canada
Email: david.wishart@ualberta.ca / dwishart@metabolomicssociety.org

Dr. Wishart received his BSc in 1983 in Physics from the University of Alberta and his PhD in Molecular Biophysics and Biochemistry from Yale University in 1991. He did post-doctoral studies at the University of Alberta from 1991-1995. He was appointed as an assistant professor in the Faculty of Pharmacy at the University of Alberta in 1995. Dr. Wishart was promoted to a full professor when he joined the Depts. of Biological Sciences and Computing Science in 2003. A major focus of Dr. Wishart’s research over the past few years has been the determination of the Human Metabolome. This multi-university effort involves using experimental and computational approaches to identify and quantify all the detectable metabolites in the human body. This information is being archived in a freely accessible web-resource called the Human Metabolome Database (HMDB). Dr. Wishart is also developing novel methods in NMR spectroscopy, mass spectrometry, multi-dimensional chromatography and machine learning to facilitate this work.